April 25, 2023

AGENDA MATERIALS

Institutional Reports

• Faculty Senate President’s Report (PDF) (Steve Scheck)
• University President’s Report (PDF) (Jesse Peters)
• Provost’s Report (PDF) (Rob Winningham, unable to attend)
• Interinstitutional Faculty Senate (no report) (Cheryl Beaver/Emily Plec)      

Old Business

Activities of the Senate Elections Nominating Committee – vote for executive officers. List of candidates. (Elisa Maroney)

 2022/2023-37 P15289 ASL Studies: Beginner (Kara Gournaris)

New Business

 No new business

Informational Presentations

 Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) (Judy Silva, Katherin Schmidt, Ryan Hickerson)

          Info video to be watched before the Senate meeting.

Open Discussion 

Announcements 

Looking for the next: 1)  General Education Director (contact Leigh Graziano); 2) Program for Undergraduate Research Experiences (PURE) Director (contact Hillary Fouts); 3) third Faculty member spot on the Academic Sustainability Committee (contact Steve Taylor); and 4) faculty positions on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) (contact Emily Vala-Haynes).

Academic Excellence Showcase

Dear Campus,

Please consider submitting to WOU Academic Excellence Showcase (AES) today! This year’s AES will be held in person on Thursday, May 25,2023. It is a great way to celebrate WOU students’ best work including research, scholarly work, capstone projects, creative arts, etc. The theme for the event is “Looking to the Future”.

Faculties and staff can submit a request for a session, performance, or event anytime between now and May 1, 2023. Once a session request is submitted, you can notify students to submit their presentations. Please note that there are two submission links: one for session request, and one for student presentations. The submission links can be found below, on the AES website: www.wou.edu/aes, and on the AES poster. On the poster, there is a QR code, scan the code will lead to the submission page. Both faculties/staff and students need to log on the Portal first to s ee the submission page. 

Please help spread the good news, and invite each other to join this one-day WOU celebration to recognize students’ excellent work throughout the year!

Request for Sessions (Faculty and Staff): Submission Link

Presentation Submission (Students): Submission Link

Thank you!

Xiaopeng Gong

Director of PURE (On behalf of the Board and AES Planning Committee)

Supplemental documents

Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 2023 article on public regionals vs. public flagships.

College Restructure Taskforce Final Report December 14, 2022